President Donald Trump has announced the U.S. will take charge of Venezuela in the interim following the military operation earlier today that saw U.S. armed forces captured the country’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores,
“We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said in a news conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“We can’t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind.”
He added that the U.S. would run Venezuela “with a group” and would be “designating various people” in charge
Trump added
We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” Trump said. “And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack, if we need to do so.”
Sir Keir Starmer was kept in the dark about Donald Trump’s Venezuelan air strikes and capture of Nicolas Maduro,
Lib Dem leader Ed Davy said that Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela.
“Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
